·Alexander
Badyaev (Ph.D.
1999, UM) received the 2001 Dobzhansky Prize from the International Society for
the Study of Evolution. The Dobzhansky
Prize, considered the most prestigious award given to young evolutionary
biologists, recognizes outstanding contribution to the study of evolution.

·Specialized
Accreditation:

oIn
April 2001, the School of Business Administration joined an elite group of
schools in receiving separate accreditation from the AACSB for both its
undergraduate and graduate programs in Accounting.

oThe
Department of Music received reaccreditation by the National Association of
Schools of Music through the year 2010.

oIn
March, the Pharmacy Technology Program received accreditation by the American
Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Commission on Credentialing through the
year 2006.

·The School of Journalism finished sixth among 109 accredited
programs in the national Hearst Awards Competition. Students in all
sequences won points for their entries, with the highest number awarded to Katrin
Frye who took first place in radio news.

·The University of Montana has received the award for best
licensing program in America by its peers.
The University received the Synergy Award for its use of integrated
marketing.

·Nominated
for a Northwest Regional Emmy award in the Cultural Affairs/Fine Arts Series
category, Backroads of Montana, produced by KUFM-TV at The University of
Montana, will compete with KING-TV, Seattle.
The nominated episode of Backroads profiles a rural mail carrier in
Roundup, a fire lookout near Nine Mile, a Glasgow metal sculptor, a labyrinth
near Victor and American Indian pictographs and petroglyphs near
Forestgrove. Backroads of Montana celebrates its tenth anniversary
on May 20.

·Members
of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently elected Professor
Johnny W. Lott, Department of Mathematical Sciences, to serve as President for
a two-year term.

·Julie
Sullivan (B.A.
1987, UM School of Journalism) became the seventh UM journalism graduate to
receive a Pulitzer Prize. She received
the Pulitzer as part of a four-person reporting team from Portland’s daily
newspaper, the Oregonian.

·Mark
Angelo (M.S. 1978,
UM School of Forestry) has received the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest
lifetime achievement award recognizing people who have made a difference to
that country. Angelo, head of the
British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation
Program, received the award for his river conservation efforts over the past 25
years.

·Two UM
students won prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarships of $5,000 each for the
academic year 2001-2002. Caroline
Plumage of Fort Belknap and Rachel James of Palmer, Alaska, join a
select group of 80 students from 39 states nominated by their professors and
selected on the basis of academic merit.

·UM
students Amanda Deisher of Terry and Zachary Wilson of Missoula
will join 302 students in the nation to receive $7,500 Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarships for the 2001-2002 academic year.
The two students, both juniors, competed on the basis of academic merit
in a field of 1,164 math, science, and engineering students nominated by
faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.